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2007

Also named in: Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th

2008

  • 2008-01-08 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — John: Asked whether his two narrators combined would make his adolescent self, John says 'kinda', but notes differences: for one, he wasn't a good student in high school. (hedged) — 00:02:04
  • 2008-07-01 · Live from LAX — John: Signing Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, John met one sweet-looking old lady who loved the first half of Looking for Alaska but said the second half fell apart. (playful) — 00:01:42
  • 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — announcement: John asks whether viewers like the paperback cover of An Abundance of Katherines, out August 8 for $3.99. — 00:03:51
  • 2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — John: Asked why the new An Abundance of Katherines paperback costs only $3.99, John says books are generally too expensive, he would rather have readers than money, and it thanks readers in advance for buying Paper Towns. (hedged) — 00:00:45
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — John: A fan of German insults, John says he used 'sitzpinkler', a man who sits to pee, about a hundred times in his second novel. (playful) — 00:01:21
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — John recalls that on the day An Abundance of Katherines came out, he and the Yeti found no copies at a bookstore, then went home, had soup and watched CSI. (playful) — 00:01:50

2009

  • 2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes — announcement: Hank says John, bestselling author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, is writing another book, This Is Not Tom, released through weekly riddles. — 00:02:38
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen Johnson: As E. Lockhart sought a title for what became The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Maureen, staring at John's cream cheese, proposed adding 'in your pants' to any title; Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines came first. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John says cover changes make him nervous, but he likes the Paper Towns paperback cover, and a Nerdfighter picture won him over to the Abundance of Katherines paperback cover. — 00:01:16
  • 2009-11-01 · NaNoWriMo!!! — John's examples from revision: Miles' obsession with famous last words in Looking for Alaska, the feral-hog hunt in An Abundance of Katherines, and the cartography in Paper Towns. — 00:01:29
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank says John is an award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns who has won awards including the Edgar and the Printz. — 00:00:49

Also named in: Peeps! Prom! Puppy!, Question Tuesday

2010

  • 2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — John: Googling himself, John found that a line he wrote years ago in An Abundance of Katherines has gone viral on Twitter, tweeted more than 10,000 times. — 00:01:03
  • 2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — John says the line ('what is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable') was meant as a joke: it is what Colin Singleton believes at the start and spends the book learning is bull. — 00:01:17
  • 2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — John: Downstairs shelves include author copies of his own books, desert island books, lexicography, child prodigies, Mark Twain, books about death, poetry, religion and conjoined twins. — 00:01:56
  • 2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — John reasoned relationships have few outcomes, so a formula predicting who ends one should be possible; he wrote a novel about someone who could, with the formula by Daniel Biss. — 00:01:12
  • 2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — John: Someone has permanently tattooed that formula on her arm, John reports: 'Is this real life?' — 00:01:39

Also named in: Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern

2011

2012

2013

  • 2013-01-11 · On the Ownership of Ideas — Hank recalls making a video anagramming presidential candidates' names; about a week later The Daily Show did the same, but John, through his writer friends, found its segment was written first. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says after years of bad stories about a chaplain like himself, he wrote Looking for Alaska, about grief, and An Abundance of Katherines, about not being special. — 00:51:58

2015

2017

  • 2017-01-24 · On Motivation — John notes that one such line, about trying to do something remarkable, is from his own novel An Abundance of Katherines: 'so my bad'. (playful) — 00:00:19
  • 2017-01-24 · On Motivation — John says the characters in An Abundance of Katherines hopefully spend the novel learning that an unremarkable life can be fulfilling and meaningful. (hedged) — 00:00:40
  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John's second book didn't sell very well. — 00:02:12

2018

  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). — 00:00:35
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John reveals an inside joke with himself: each of his books has a prime-minus-one number of chapters; TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down have 24, Will Grayson, Will Grayson and An Abundance of Katherines 20. — 00:01:12

2019

  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John quite likes the title An Abundance of Katherines, which he wrote before the story, though the Italian title, 'The Catherine Theorem', is much better. — 00:00:58

2021

  • 2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John confirms he used the word 'deadpan' exactly once in The Anthropocene Reviewed, as in every book since An Abundance of Katherines, another 14-year-old joke he enjoys. — 00:02:36
  • 2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John: In late 2006, after An Abundance of Katherines came out, John quit his day job to write full time, found himself still inconsistent and the empty days terrifying, and three months later invented an unpaid job, this channel. — 00:01:34

2023

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says most optioned books never become movies: An Abundance of Katherines was optioned and never made, and Paper Towns was optioned three times first. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John notes that, like most of his books, it contains the word 'deadpanned' precisely once. (playful) — 00:03:37

2026

  • 2026-02-27 · Can We Do a Science Together?? — Hank asks whether all 19 Katherines of An Abundance of Katherines count, says no, and names its protagonist as Miles before correcting himself to Colin Singleton. (playful) — 00:01:31

Also named in other years (nothing said): My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! (2016-03-29)